So I started off this morning hitting a few of the museos I have yet to see. My Spanish teacher mentioned a pretty special part of town and she was right. It had kept the same old architecture style from years back, which is almost not possible to find in other places of La Paz. They have taken the neighborhood and created museos with colonial art, pottery, etc. The first museum dealt with the Japanese influx into Bolivia. I did not find it very exciting. The next was a display of natural wealth. I walked into a vault that was three levels full of gold jewelry, head pieces, wool sweaters with gold plates, basically a ton of gold from before the Spanish influence. There was also quite a bit of silver. The most interesting piece was
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